Jonas Salk
28 October 1914 – 23 June 1995
American virologist who developed the first successful polio vaccine and founded the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He famously declined to patent the vaccine.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Jonas Salk.
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- Bill Hewlett (1913–2001) Overlapped 81 years →
- Cahit Arf (1910–1997) Overlapped 81 years →
- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997) Overlapped 81 years →
- Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004) Overlapped 81 years →
- Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008) Overlapped 81 years →
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Began polio vaccine research at Pittsburgh
1947
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